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Eugenia Bone’s Awesome Osso Bucco with Oyster and Portabello Mushrooms Recipe

From her paradigm-shifting new book, The Kitchen Ecosystem, Eugenia Bone shares a simple yet savory recipe that is sure to become a fall favorite. Yields4 ServingsQuarter (1 Serving)Half (2...

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A Chat Among Friends: Louie & Eugenia

Eugenia Bone is a long time food writer, author of five books (Her fifth, The Kitchen Ecosystem, was just released in September), an Italian cook, mushroom hunter, master canner, and all-around bloated...

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Fantastic Fungi Gallery Opening

Fantastic Fungi is quickly, uh, mushrooming into a community of serious fungi fanatics! From foragers to foodies, we’ve gathered quite the motley crew of shroom connoisseurs, and we’re just getting...

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Welcome our newest Tribe member, Michael Judd

As any Mycophile knows, the more you understand about mycelium, the more you understand its intrinsic connection to all things. The real magic of mushrooms is their ability to provide life-sustaining...

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BeeFriendly™, a Breakthrough Solution

Perhaps the interconnectedness of nature is best exemplified by mycelium. It offers nourishment at every stage in the life cycle, from the soil to the plant to the human body. We know that medicinal...

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What’s Your Mushroom Personality Type?

We all have a type. Each of us is a unique blend of characteristics, from the most superficial to the deeply complex. And while outward appearances are important, we know it’s really what’s on the...

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A Message From Our Plants (Audio)

Davyd and Emma Farrell have a message for you. It’s a message from their plants. It all started with a big mug of nettle tea, an afternoon meditation and a heart-opening ephiphany. In a state of deep...

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The Healing Power of Medicinal Mushrooms

By Dr. Isaac Eliaz, M.D., M.S., L.Ac. Mushrooms are truly magical. We have always used mushrooms as food and medicine. In fact, many mushrooms have long been used throughout Asia for medicinal...

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The Skin-Saving Miracle of Mushrooms

Tribe Member Dr. Andrew Weil knows a thing or two about the ‘shroom. A long time mushroom hunter, Dr. Weil incorporates them into his holistic lifestyle for their immune-boosting, antioxidant and...

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Fungal Art

There are only a handful of debates that have persisted through the ages. Which rock band was better, the Beatles or the Stones? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Does art imitate life or does...

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T-bone Steak with Winter Chanterelles, by Eugenia Bone

Resident foodie Eugenia Bone serves up a savory winter dinner and reveals her secret sauce for the perfectly cooked chanterelle. “On a mushroom hunt with Sonoma-based preserver and gleaner Elissa...

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Let It Snow

We may be biased, but we think our fantastic fungi community (that’s you!) is the most intelligent, engaged, clever and hilarious crew on the interwebs. We’ve so enjoyed getting to know you, learn from...

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Discovering the World’s Best-Kept Black Truffle Secrets

Ten years ago most people thought “truffles” were dense, dark chocolate balls that we indulged in for dessert. Looks like this is changing. Culinary enthusiasts have discovered that true truffles come...

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Two Truffle Temptations with Wine Pairings, by Eugenia Bone

Buying truffles and truffle products is a risky business. But good compromises can be made. Lately I’ve scratched my truffle itch with D’Artagnan’s canned summer truffle peelings. They don’t have the...

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Inside the Truffle Trade

If you’ve ever felt like you’ve been skunked buying truffles, well, you are not alone. Serious home cooks and even food pros get bamboozled all the time. It’s actually pretty difficult and always...

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Meal Planning with Mushrooms, by Eugenia Bone

Since my children were born I have put on a couple of pounds every few years and every time it happens, I get uptight about it. Over the years I’ve tried tweaking my eating habits in order to lose the...

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Report from the Underground by Paul Stamets

Mycologist, Tribe member and founder of Fungi Perfecti, Paul Stamets, recently revealed a breakthrough discovery that has the potential to change -and heal- our ecosystem. He proposes that there is a...

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Foraging the fragrant Matsutake, By Constance Green

This legendary mushroom is probably the greatest barely explored ingredient in the kitchens of western culture. In terms of preciousness, dollars, and demand; only Italian white and Perigord truffles...

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Trip or Treatment? by Michael Pollan

Excerpt from The Trip Treatment Michael Pollan’s recent article in The New Yorker. On an April Monday in 2010, Patrick Mettes, a fifty-four-year-old television news director being treated for a cancer...

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Natural Intelligence: An Excerpt from Magic Mushroom Explorer by Simon G. Powell

Wild psilocybinetic treks undoubtedly inspired my ideas about the nature of the world. Indeed, they led to what I call the “natural intelligence paradigm,” which has become a major part of my work....

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Sunshine on my mushrooms makes me happy

Louie Schwartzberg has been a fervent crusader in the fight against Nature Deficit Disorder. If you follow his company, Moving Art, then you may recognize his recent campaign hashtag: #BeatNDD, the...

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Make Better Meals From Scraps

Are you throwing away your broccoli stems and peach pits? Food writer, cookbook author and Fantastic Fungi Tribe Member Eugenia Bone says don’t. In her new book, “The Kitchen Ecosystem,” she writes...

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Fungi-Inspired Ideas for Global Wellness Day 2015

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number one health problem in the world is surprisingly not a virus or a disease – it is depression — which is linked to insomnia, stress, weight...

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Healthy, Happy Soil with Mycorrhizal

While mycelium wears a lot of hats, it has one primary job – to turn everything into soil, and then to feed the plants and trees that surround it. With an amazing intelligence, it’s wraps its mycelium...

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Confronting the Shadow

The general public may be waking up, once again, to the healing and restorative power of plant medicine, thanks in part to “psychonaut” pioneers, like James Jesso, who push the social and cultural...

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Fantastic Fungi Sneak Peek: “Mother Trees”

As promised, here is a sneak clip from the amazing, exciting, inspiring film we have been working on, Fantastic Fungi. It was hard to choose just one, but we hope you agree this is worth getting...

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Stamets & Schwartzberg Present “Mushrooms for Bees, Trees, People & Planet”

On Wednesday, February 24th, the beautiful and historic Directors Guild of America was sold out to max capacity for the highly anticipated presentation by our own Paul Stamets and Louie Schwartzberg....

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Answering the Call of the Mycelium Warrior

This is the tale of a magical mycelium-like connection of dedicated individuals that will ultimately end right in your very lap, dear reader, with an invitation to join a mighty tribe dedicated to a...

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Falling in Love with Fungi at Ridpath Middle School

Sometimes reaching out across the world wide web can lead to amazing things – as they did when Mrs. Fenn, an elementary school teacher at Ridpath Public School in Ontario, Canada reached out to Louie...

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Nature, Faith, Fungi & Community

In this final week of the official Gratitude Lab, we turn our focus to faith and community. How ironic – and how perfect – that another of Louie’s inspirational muses – the underground world of...

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Can Mushrooms Save the Honey Bee?

We’ve recently teamed up with Biographic, a multimedia magazine powered by the California Academy of Sciences, to document Washington States University and Fungi Perfecti by Paul Stamets‘ fight to save...

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Mushrooms Emerge from Underground

From more magic mushroom research, microdosing and retreats – to a profusion of superpower mushrooms infused in foods, drinks and beauty products The 2017 Global Wellness Summit kicked off with a...

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The Shaman Approach To Wellness

In Western medicine, we have mostly abandoned the traditional methods of indigenous communities. But has modern medicine led us off-track?  Perhaps we need to change the way we think about wellness....

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How Fungi Can Help Fight Pandemics

There is magic beneath our feet—including not only plant medicines, but possibly the next game-changing vaccines that we so desperately need now and will always need in the future.   There’s a rich...

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Learning Nature’s Language

Nature has been sending us messages for centuries, but it takes a special kind of awareness to understand them. Louie Schwartzberg has been shooting time-lapse flowers continuously, nonstop, 24 hours...

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Mushroom Roadie Results: Best Photo, Best Find, Most Likes

Wow. Thousands of amazing #MushroomRoadie images have been submitted, making it almost impossible for Louie and Paul to select a single winner for both Best Photo and Best Fungi Find. Winners were...

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Accordion Test

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Coming Shroom: The Fantastic Fungi Kickstarter Campaign

Dear beloved fungal friends, It’s finally here. The scientifically sound, environmentally critical, consciousness-expanding, crowd-pleasing crowdfunding campaign to end all campaigns. We’re going to...

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Meatless Monday – Black Bean, Corn and Pumpkin Risotto

Brimming with fall’s freshest flavors, this Southwestern spin on risotto is a cozy treat for your next Meatless Monday meal. [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:6] The post Meatless Monday – Black Bean, Corn and...

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Big Sur Foragers Festival – Visual Healing, Gratitude & Fungi

Gratitude, Fungi & Visual Healing Does this look like fun or what? Last week, Louie was honored to be asked to speak at the Big Sur Foragers Festival at Post Ranch. As you can see, Big Sur is a...

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Moving Mondays: Synchronous and Natural Evolution

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A Celebration of Visionary Art

Moving Art director Louie Schwartzberg will receive the American Visionary Art Museum’s highest honor, the Grand Visionary Award on August 2. Fantastic Fungi explored Visionary Art through the lens of...

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Poetry and Water Meditation

Poetry and Water Meditation Director Louie Schwartzberg has been exploring our waterways with his camera for more than four decades, showing us the healing power of Visual Healing with water imagery....

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Heroes of the Local Food Movement

How Else Can We Get Back To Nature? “We’ve got to get out of the way and let nature heal itself,” said Moving Art filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg on the Practice You podcast, pointing out ways we can...

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The Fight to Save the Bees

Who Is Championing The Bees? “At times, we forget the importance of pollination,” writes one Moving Art viewer who was inspired by Louie Schwartzberg’s passionate defense of pollinators. We all need...

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The Role of Mushroom Agriculture in Fighting Poverty

What Can Mushrooms Do To Help Society? Around the world, mushroom farming has provided opportunities to people in poverty-stricken communities. In East Asia and Africa, mushroom agriculture is being...

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5 Ways Mushrooms Can Heal

For thousands of years, ancient cultures have been using mushrooms to heal. Modern medicine has even turned to these fantastic fungi, with 40% of Western medicines using mushrooms’ properties which...

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A Shift in Consciousness with Psilocybin Therapy

Psilocybin Therapy Can Psilocybin Therapy lead to a shift in consciousness? “Magic mushrooms can shift your consciousness and make you feel this ultimate connection with all living things on the...

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The Stoned Ape Theory

How did the human brain triple in size in just two million years? There’s a fascinating evolutionary hypothesis behind it, but they definitely won’t teach you this one in school! It’s time to learn...

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Celebrating Love a Tree Day (May 16th)

Happy Love a Tree Day! There are many ways to celebrate this fine nature-inspired holiday. You can hug a tree, plant a tree, hike amongst trees, or donate money to a charity that supports trees. Do you...

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